Aunt Katrina & Flowers For The Dead
AUNT KATRINA “I started this band to force my friends to hang out with me.” says frontman Ryan Walchonski. The post-college sentiment feels silly but pained, like the music coming from DMV band Aunt Katrina. Written by Walchonski alongside local talented collaborators, Aunt Katrina is an exercise in staying in place and making music in […]
Matt Pryor
MATT PRYOR of THE GET UP KIDS
Blue Lake & Ezra Feinberg
BLUE LAKE Blue Lake is the musical project of American multidisciplinary artist and musician Jason Dungan. Born in Dallas, T exas, he now resides in Copenhagen on an island, unbeknown to most, named Amager, in the heart of the Danish capital. His 2023 album ‘Sun Arcs’ (Tonal Union) received international critical acclaim. Praised for being […]
Pet Symmetry
PET SYMMETRY Pet Symmetry started with the best and simplest of intentions: as an excuse to goof off. In 2013, the band’s three members, Evan Weiss (Into It. Over It., Their / They’re / There, Couplet), Erik Czaja (Dowsing) and Marcus Nuccio (Ratboys), started kicking around ideas that were more lighthearted in nature than their […]
Charlotte Cornfield & Sima Cunningham
CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD It’s been less than two years since Highs in the Minuses became Charlotte Cornfield’s break-out—a magnetic mission-statement for the Toronto songwriter described by Rolling Stone as “Canada’s best-kept secret.” Cornfield emerged from pandemic seclusion with new fans, raised expectations, and her first major US tour. She could have kept touring forever; she could […]
Eiko Ishibashi
EIKO ISHIBASHI Eiko Ishibashi is a Japan-based musician whose work has been released by labels such as Drag City, Black Truffle, and Editions Mego. In January 2020, she was commissioned to compose music for the exhibition “Japan Supernatural” at The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. This composition was later released as the album […]
Corridor
CORRIDOR You get older, you have a family, and you start to slow down—that’s how things are supposed to go, right? Not for Montreal band Corridor, who have returned on their fourth album Mimi with a sound and style that’s more widescreen and expansive than anything that’s preceded it. The follow-up to 2019’s Junior is […]
The Number Ones
THE NUMBER ONES FAN CLUB DARK THOUGHTS MOPAR STARS
Daniel Higgs & Jeremy Bradley Earl
DANIEL HIGGS Daniel Higgs, interdimensional song-seamstress and corpse-dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the harbor city of Baltimore, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millennium. Having begun singing 25 years ago, he is perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the band Lungfish, which is now, as it often […]
Casino Hearts
CASINO HEARTS Based in Los Angeles, Casino Hearts are Forrest Holter, Nick Minor, and Jacob Rubeck. Rubeck and Minor originally formed the band in Reno in 2013 releasing a number of albums and becoming a staple of the local music scene. When Rubeck moved to Los Angeles, the band went on an indefinite hiatus with […]
